Peter Tamura's Blog

For those that are thinking about buying a home and taking advantage of the $8,000 tax credit, the window for this current tax credit is closing, the home purchase must close before December 1st, 2009. Now this brings up several issues. 1.  Will Congress extend/renew this tax credit?  This will d...

As I check my clients from last year, I notice that about a quarter of them have not filed for Homeowner's Exemption.  After the close of your purchase, within a couple of weeks your deed will be executed and filed at the County Clerk's office.  You are now ready to file for your Homestead Exempt...

Peter Tamura recently completed the Certified Distressed Property Expert Designation and training and has pledged to help homeowners struggling with payments to make good informed decisions and move forward with their lives. "The thing that was shocking to me was the knowledge that as many as sev...

I've shown this couple six times or so and driven significant distances and looked at different areas.  We've probably looked at about forty homes.  He put a listing on his "want to see list" that he'd already seen and rejected. ======================================== ****, We have a problem, ou...

Well, we saw this article and we thought it was an amazing example of how things are handled differently in different states. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090412_12_A1_Valind871368 Well, for the cliffnote version of what happened, a woman in Owasso, OK boug...

Chip Shot- comments made in class aligned with a professor's known opinion and philosophy in order to get credit. I occasionally see these short blogs, sometimes cute or funny, but really not useful or informative.  I'm sorry that I clicked onto them and wasted my time.  There's a lot of them on ...

44% of Harvard MBA grads indicated they were pursuing jobs on Wall Street in 2007 according to an article by Robert Weisman at the Boston Globe. It's a sad testament that our best and brightest are still opting for a career with an investment bank.  It's an exciting field and you can make a lot o...

Savvy First Time Homebuyers Seen Snapping up Homes using the newly passed $8,000 Tax Credit  You are Invited! Free Insider Knowledge includes: * A Summary of the homebuying Process * A-Z of the FHA loan (What you need to know!) * Current details of the $8,000 Tax Credit     - find your Dream Home...

I had no idea how to develop this niche of the market, I thought this article was very interesting..REO marketing is where it's at in 2009, but getting started is challenging and time consuming.  Now that banks are willing to use real estate agents to sell their large stock of homes, you must car...

Just when you swore up and down that you would never do another short sale because the lack of cooperation from banks and the amount of time and effort involved, you are told that this is going to be a huge niche and you need to figure it out.  Right now the percentage of short sales that actual...